NEHRU’S EFFORTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27447, 21 July 1950, Page 7

NEHRU’S EFFORTS

Seating Red China In United Nations

PROPOSALS RENEWED

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Rec. ll'p.m. WASHINGTON, July 19. The Indian Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru, today renewed his proposal to bring Communist China into the United Nations as a step towards solving the Korean crisis. In a new Note to the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, he said that the admission, of. the Chinese Communists, as demanded by Russia, would not be “ an encouragement of aggression.”

India, in making this approach to the United Nations and Russia, was seeking to “strengthen the United Nations in resisting aggression.” Pandit Nehru’s Note followed Mr Acheson’s rejection of the plan to seat Communist China now as a preliminary to a possible settlement through the Security Council. Unofficial Indian circles in New Delhi hold thal Pandit Nehru’s well-intended effort to localise the Korean conflict has been caught athwart the mutually antagonistic imperialist forces of the United States and Russia. Mr Stalin’s reply to Pandit Nehru’s approach was affable but vague; Mr Acheson’s was unmistakably chiding. Contrary to what some of her foreign critics appear to think, the Indian intention was not to trade a seat in the Security Council for Communist China for the cessation of war in Korea, but to make United Nations authority unassailable by bringing into its counsels the “ people’s ” China, whose Government Britain as well as India has already formally recognised. Talks in Moscow The Soviety Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, told the British Ambassador in Moscow, Sir David Kelly, that Russia considered the best method for the peaceful settlement of the Korean question was summoning the Security Council with the “ indispensable participation ” of the Chinese Communist representatives, according to a Taas message received in London today. The Tass report said that on July 11 Sir David told Mr Gromyko that the British Government, being bound by the latest decisions of the Security Council, could not at present put forward definite proposals for a peaceful Korean settlement because that would be going too far ahead. At the same time Sir David said the British Government considered it was necessary that as a preliminary proposal, hostilities in Korea should be terminated and North Korean troops withdrawn beyond the thirty-eighth parallel. On July 17 Mr Gromyko informed Sir David that the best method for a peaceful settlement was the convocation of the Security Council, with the Chinese Communists participating. He added that the representatives of the Korean people should also ,be heard. Concerning the British Government’s preliminary proposal, Mr Gromyko said that to avoid going too far ahead this, like all other proposals, should be handed over for the consideration of the Security Council. Sir David replied that he would communicate Mr Gromyko’s statement to his Government.